Originally Posted by
lulz
Reading through it... it's totally competent, funny, and light hearted. As I expected.
One issue: there's a lot of ----- scene changes for a one-shot; what should have been a single paragraph of description for a race turned into a scene change, which is a slight cop out... though this is more of a criticism of a good piece of art, and not the musings of an amateur.
Okay, what, the actual date was a scene skip too? I'm sorry but I have to take back my previous sentence; there is just too much telling, not enough showing. Come on, it can't be that hard to describe eating with somepony you're interested in, can it?
I expected silly, awkward conversation that the reader wouldn't necessarily understand because it's the kind of stuff they would talk about. And I find a scene change in it's place! I was going to rate this a 4/5, but I may have to go down to 3/5 at this rate.
Okay, nice rise to the mountain but- Okay WHAT!? I'm sorry, that isn't how love works. Two ponies "liking" each other for what is probably a few years but never talking on more than a platonic leve have a first date and suddenly there's a love proclamation? I'm sorry, that's really jarring.
It's almost ready, but I don't really want it to be posted. There are two entire scenes that were skipped over that had literally no reason to be skipped (The race, and the ACTUAL DATE), and then that ending is so jarring that I simply don't believe it. Some show of appreciation, growing affection, and a small change form platonic to romantic interaction is what is needed, not HOLY COW WE'RE IN LOVE NOW. That isn't how love works.
I say, after you get this response, work on everything in the above paragraph. If you fix those two scene changes and make the ending a little less... you know, "exact," then it will be a gold star from me and postable.